Brian Khumalo, MSocSci is an anthropologist and biosemiotician. Currently, Khumalo is a doctoral candidate  in the Anthropology Department at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, United States. Khumalo received a Masters in Anthropology from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa in 2022, studies which he completed as an Erasmus+ Mobility Researcher at the University of Lille, France. Khumalo received a joint BA in Anthropology and Jurisprudence, also from Rhodes University, in 2018. 

He has primarily studied cooperation in the management of freshwater fisheries resources among recreational fishers using ethnography and game theory. He has worked on similar environmental research projects in South Africa, Tanzania, Seychelles, and the Solomon Islands, that had been supported by the Global Challenges Research Fund in the United Kingdom, Belmont Forum in Australia, National Research Foundation in South Africa, and National Science Foundation in the United States, among other funding agencies.

As a biosemiotician, he regularly collaborates with primatologists to better understand non-linguistic communication, focusing primarily on facial and gestural behavior. He is also interested in meaning-making as a core component of the extended evolutionary synthesis, having published on this topic in journals including Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences and Biosemiotics. His research lies at the intersection of cognitive anthropology and human ecology, specifically in understanding cultural cognition as it relates to environmental management and decision-making. 

Mr. Khumalo is a member of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS) and the Society for Ethnobiology. He also serves as the Cultural Anthropology Section Editor for the New Florida Journal of Anthropology.